Popular politician slumps, dies after three months in office

Emmanuel Leweh, the chairman of Akwanga local government area of Nasarawa state is dead.

Leweh is reported to have slumped while he was in a meeting with council members at the council secretariat in Akwanga local government area on Monday, January 10.

He reportedly died in a private hospital in Abuja on Thursday, January 13.

His death comes just three months after he took office.

Samuel Tsebe, a member of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, has confirmed the ugly development.

He was quoted to have said: “I lost my elder brother (Hon Emmanuel Joseph Leweh, Executive Chairman of Akwanga LGA) to the cold hand of Death this evening after a brief illness.”